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Rudresh Mahanthappa: Codebook
by Troy Collins
Rudresh Mahanthappa's previous quartet album, Mother Tongue (Pi, 2004), explored the transposition of Indian dialects into the structural frameworks of acoustic jazz. Codebook builds on the alto saxophonist's previous work by incorporating aspects of cryptography into his new compositions. He's joined by his regular foil, pianist Vijay Iyer, as well as his usual quartet bassist, François ...
Odyssey the Band: Back in Time
by AAJ Italy Staff
Negli ultimi anni il chitarrista-cantante James Blood Ulmer si è spostato ad esplorare scenari singolari di blues post-rurale, ottenendo risultati di grande interesse. I suoi recenti lavori hanno il pregio di essere basati sulla rilettura di elementi tradizionali filtrati dalla sua peculiare visione mutuata da quella sensibilità di avanguardista ‘sui generis’ che tutti gli riconoscono. In ...
Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly
by AAJ Italy Staff
Liberty Ellman giunge al terzo disco da leader e il salto di qualità è evidente rispetto alle ottime potenzialità espresse in Tactiles. A differenza di quanto spesso accade coi lavori dei chitarristi, quest'incisione non è focalizzata sullo strumento a sei corde ma ha una prospettiva ampia e articolata, prettamente compositiva. Partner per alcuni anni di Henry ...
Art Ensemble of Chicago: Non-Cognitive Aspects of the City: Live at Iridium
by Troy Collins
It seemed that the tireless Art Ensemble of Chicago might have reached its denouement with the passing of Malachi Favors in 2004. Coupled with Favors' demise, Lester Bowie's death in 1999, six years after Joseph Jarman first resigned, seemed prophetic. Undaunted, the remaining original members soldiered on, and for the first time in their history, they ...
Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly
by Troy Collins
Ophiuchus Butterfly is guitarist Liberty Ellman's third release as a leader, but his widest exposure has come as guitarist in Henry Threadgill's acoustic Zooid ensemble. From the distinctive opening notes of the title track, one can hear that Ellman has been absorbing lessons from the master. Blending Threadgill's taste for multiethnic rhythms and Eastern scales with ...
Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly
by Mark F. Turner
Being different just for the sake of being different is simply not enough. But then Liberty Ellman has never fit into the category of a run-of-the-mill jazz guitarist. Like a Bohemian artisan who dabbles in a variety of styles yet develops a unique identity, Ellman has performed impressively within mainstream, abstract jazz, and hip-hop settings--sometimes combining ...
Steve Lehman: Demian as Posthuman
by Terrell Kent Holmes
How can a disc with Steve Lehman, Meshell Ndegeocello, Tyshawn Sorey and Vijay Iyer go wrong? Demian as Posthuman clocks in at a short, sweet 37 minutes and is essentially a series of sax/drum duets with variations on the same theme (electric bassist Ndegeocello and drummer Eric McPherson are on three of twelve cuts, Iyer on ...
Odyssey the Band: Back in Time
by Paul Olson
Guitarist/vocalist James “Blood Ulmer has managed to recreate himself as a bluesman in the last few years, as he convincingly demonstrated on last year's Birthright (Hyena). On that set of unaccompanied solo pieces, Ulmer somehow made his wildly unique unison tuning and Ornette-derived harmolodic sensibility sound like the very essence of the blues. It was the ...
Simulated Progress
By Fieldwork
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Headlong; Transgression; Trips; Telematic; Media Studies; Gaudi; Transitions; Peril;
Reprise; Infogee Dub; Durations.
Demian As Posthuman
By Steve Lehman
Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2005
Track listing: Vapors; Demian; Damage Mobility - Acoustic; Damage Mobility; Cognition - Curtis Duncan; Cognition - Drew Hill; Logic - Me'Shell; Logic - Tyshawn; Cognition - Ernest Givens; Cognition - Haywood Jeffries; Emphonic; Community.
